Numbers · Bible in Basic English
Numbers 6 Bible in Basic English
Audio: World English Bible (WEB), read by Winfred W. Henson · About the recordings
1 And the Lord said to Moses,
1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
2 Say to the children of Israel, If a man or a woman takes an oath to keep himself separate and give himself to the Lord;
2 “Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them: ‘When either man or woman shall make a special vow, the vow of a Nazirite, to separate himself to Yahweh,
3 He is to keep himself from wine and strong drink, and take no mixed wine or strong drink or any drink made from grapes, or any grapes, green or dry.
3 he shall separate himself from wine and strong drink. He shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of fermented drink, neither shall he drink any juice of grapes, nor eat fresh grapes or dried.
4 All the time he is separate he may take nothing made from the grape-vine, from its seeds to its skin.
4 All the days of his separation he shall eat nothing that is made of the grapevine, from the seeds even to the skins.
5 All the time he is under his oath let no blade come near his head; till the days while he is separate are ended he is holy and his hair may not be cut.
5 “‘All the days of his vow of separation no razor shall come on his head, until the days are fulfilled in which he separates himself to Yahweh. He shall be holy. He shall let the locks of the hair of his head grow long.
6 All the time he is separate he may not come near any dead body.
6 “‘All the days that he separates himself to Yahweh he shall not go near a dead body.
7 He may not make himself unclean for his father or his mother, his sister or his brother, if death comes to them; because he is under an oath to keep himself separate for God.
7 He shall not make himself unclean for his father, or for his mother, for his brother, or for his sister, when they die, because his separation to God is on his head.
8 All the time he is separate he is holy to the Lord.
8 All the days of his separation he is holy to Yahweh.
9 If death comes suddenly to a man at his side, so that he becomes unclean, let his hair be cut off on the day when he is made clean, on the seventh day.
9 “‘If any man dies very suddenly beside him, and he defiles the head of his separation, then he shall shave his head in the day of his cleansing. On the seventh day he shall shave it.
10 And on the eighth day let him take to the priest, at the door of the Tent of meeting, two doves or two young pigeons;
10 On the eighth day he shall bring two turtledoves or two young pigeons to the priest, to the door of the Tent of Meeting.
11 And the priest will give one for a sin-offering and the other for a burned offering to take away the sin which came on him on account of the dead, and he will make his head holy that same day.
11 The priest shall offer one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering, and make atonement for him, because he sinned by reason of the dead, and shall make his head holy that same day.
12 And he will give to the Lord his days of being separate, offering a he-lamb of the first year as an offering for error: but the earlier days will be a loss, because he became unclean.
12 He shall separate to Yahweh the days of his separation, and shall bring a male lamb a year old for a trespass offering; but the former days shall be void, because his separation was defiled.
13 And this is the law for him who is separate, when the necessary days are ended: he is to come to the door of the Tent of meeting,
13 “‘This is the law of the Nazirite: when the days of his separation are fulfilled, he shall be brought to the door of the Tent of Meeting,
14 And make his offering to the Lord; one he-lamb of the first year, without a mark, for a burned offering, and one female lamb of the first year, without a mark, for a sin-offering, and one male sheep, without a mark, for peace-offerings,
14 and he shall offer his offering to Yahweh: one male lamb a year old without defect for a burnt offering, one ewe lamb a year old without defect for a sin offering, one ram without defect for peace offerings,
15 And a basket of unleavened bread, cakes of the best meal mixed with oil, and thin unleavened cakes covered with oil, with their meal offering and drink offerings.
15 a basket of unleavened bread, cakes of fine flour mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil with their meal offering and their drink offerings.
16 And the priest will take them before the Lord, and make his sin-offering and his burned offering;
16 The priest shall present them before Yahweh, and shall offer his sin offering and his burnt offering.
17 Giving the sheep of the peace-offerings, with the basket of unleavened bread; and at the same time, the priest will make his meal offering and his drink offering.
17 He shall offer the ram for a sacrifice of peace offerings to Yahweh, with the basket of unleavened bread. The priest shall offer also its meal offering and its drink offering.
18 Then let his long hair, the sign of his oath, be cut off at the door of the Tent of meeting, and let him put it on the fire on which the peace-offerings are burning.
18 The Nazirite shall shave the head of his separation at the door of the Tent of Meeting, take the hair of the head of his separation, and put it on the fire which is under the sacrifice of peace offerings.
19 And the priest will take the cooked leg of the sheep and one unleavened cake and one thin cake out of the basket, and put them on the hands of the separate one after his hair has been cut,
19 The priest shall take the boiled shoulder of the ram, one unleavened cake out of the basket, and one unleavened wafer, and shall put them on the hands of the Nazirite after he has shaved the head of his separation;
20 Waving them for a wave offering before the Lord; this is holy for the priest, together with the waved breast and the leg which is lifted up; after that, the man may take wine.
20 and the priest shall wave them for a wave offering before Yahweh. They are holy for the priest, together with the breast that is waved and the thigh that is offered. After that the Nazirite may drink wine.
21 This is the law for him who takes an oath to keep himself separate, and for his offering to the Lord on that account, in addition to what he may be able to get; this is the law of his oath, which he will have to keep.
21 “‘This is the law of the Nazirite who vows and of his offering to Yahweh for his separation, in addition to that which he is able to afford. According to his vow which he vows, so he must do after the law of his separation.’”
22 And the Lord said to Moses,
22 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
23 Say to Aaron and his sons, These are the words of blessing which are to be used by you in blessing the children of Israel; say to them,
23 “Speak to Aaron and to his sons, saying, ‘This is how you shall bless the children of Israel.’ You shall tell them,
24 May the Lord send his blessing on you and keep you:
24 ‘Yahweh bless you, and keep you.
25 May the light of the Lord's face be shining on you in grace:
25 Yahweh make his face to shine on you, and be gracious to you.
26 May the Lord's approval be resting on you and may he give you peace.
26 Yahweh lift up his face toward you, and give you peace.’
27 So they will put my name on the children of Israel, and I will give them my blessing.
27 “So they shall put my name on the children of Israel; and I will bless them.”
People & places in this chapter
From this site's family tree and Bible maps, only where those guides cite this chapter.
People
Moses
Drawn from the Nile, he led Israel out of Egypt and received God's Law.
Cited in the guide: Exodus 2–Deuteronomy 34
Cross references (23)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 2 Judges 13:5; Amos 2:11–12; Romans 1:1; Hebrews 7:27; Proverbs 18:1
- 3 Luke 1:15; 1 Timothy 5:23; Ephesians 5:18; Judges 13:14; Leviticus 10:9
- 4 Numbers 6:5; Numbers 6:8–9; Numbers 6:12–13; Numbers 6:18–19; Numbers 6:21
- 5 1 Samuel 1:11; Judges 13:5; Judges 16:17; Judges 16:19; Lamentations 4:7–8
- 6 Leviticus 21:11; Leviticus 19:28; Ezekiel 24:16–18; Jeremiah 16:5–6; Numbers 19:11–22
- 7 Numbers 9:6; Leviticus 21:1–2; Ezekiel 44:25; Leviticus 21:10–12
- 8 2 Corinthians 6:17–18
- 9 Numbers 6:18; Leviticus 14:9; Acts 18:18; Philippians 3:8–9; Acts 21:23–24
- 10 Leviticus 15:14; Leviticus 1:14; Leviticus 15:29; Leviticus 12:6; Leviticus 14:22–23
- 11 Leviticus 5:8–10; Leviticus 14:30–31
- 12 Leviticus 5:6; James 2:10; Leviticus 14:24; John 8:29–31; Matthew 24:13
- 13 Acts 21:26
- 14 Leviticus 4:32; Leviticus 3:6; 1 Peter 1:19; 1 Chronicles 15:28–29; Numbers 15:27
- 15 Leviticus 2:4; Exodus 29:2; Numbers 15:10; Numbers 15:1–7; Leviticus 8:2
- 18 Acts 21:24; Numbers 6:9; Acts 18:18; Ephesians 1:6; Numbers 6:5
- 19 Leviticus 7:30; 1 Samuel 2:15; Leviticus 8:27; Leviticus 8:31; Exodus 29:23–28
- 20 Ecclesiastes 9:7; Exodus 29:27–28; Numbers 5:25; Leviticus 10:15; Zechariah 10:7
- 21 Numbers 5:29; Galatians 6:6; Hebrews 13:16; Ezra 2:69
- 23 1 Chronicles 23:13; Deuteronomy 21:5; Genesis 48:20; Hebrews 7:1; Luke 24:50–51
- 24 1 Thessalonians 5:23; Psalm 121:4–7; Philippians 4:7; Jude 24; Isaiah 42:6
- 25 Psalm 80:19; Psalm 119:135; Psalm 31:16; Psalm 67:1; Daniel 9:17
- 26 Psalm 4:6; 2 Thessalonians 3:16; Psalm 29:11; Romans 15:13; John 16:33
- 27 2 Chronicles 7:14; Daniel 9:18–19; Ephesians 1:3; Deuteronomy 28:10; Jeremiah 14:9
Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences